FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" Released with Major Codec Updates and Infrastructure Modernization
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Summary
FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" has been released as a major update to the popular multimedia framework. This release is one of the largest to date, featuring significant infrastructure modernization and numerous new codec additions including native decoders for APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, and G.728. The update also includes substantial improvements to VVC decoder with IBC, ACT, and Palette Mode support, as well as Vulkan compute-based codecs including FFv1.
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Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up being one of our largest releases to date
Native decoders: APV, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, G.728
VVC decoder improvements: IBC, ACT, Palette Mode
Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1
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